{"id":97103,"date":"2016-05-24T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97103"},"modified":"2016-05-24T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T16:59:48","slug":"my-name-is-bill-kristol-and-how-i-became-a-renegade-jew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=97103","title":{"rendered":"My Name Is Bill Kristol \u2014 and How I Became a Renegade Jew"},"content":{"rendered":"

Forward<\/a>: I’m a Renegade Jew. It didn\u2019t start out that way. I was just an ordinary Jew, putting in my Jewish time, observing the Jewish calendar, mostly blowing off my Jewish responsibilities except for lip service to the faith on Yom Kippur and Passover.
\nBut I still did what I thought was right, for Judaism and for my country, by helping George W. Bush become president, because he was \u201cgood for Israel.\u201d I wrote influential op-eds, I went on TV, I obfuscated and I apologized for war crimes.
\nIt\u2019s what I\u2019d been raised to do, as a conservative Jewish intellectual. But then one Sunday morning, I went out for bagels. I shouldn\u2019t have gone to Zabar\u2019s; it wasn\u2019t safe. Then I came home to a nightmare. They\u2019d gotten to my family, the monsters. Everyone \u2014 my father Irving, my uncle Schlomo, my second cousin Leon Epstein, my daughter Shoshanna \u2014 had been viciously slandered on the Internet. Like dogs, our opinions meant nothing anymore.
\nAfter all I\u2019d done for Judaism, for the cause, for America, my Republican colleagues had betrayed me by supporting Donald Trump.
\nI had no choice…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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